Xpdf is a free PDF viewer and toolkit, including a text extractor, image converter, HTML converter, and more.
Xpdf is based on XpdfWidget/Qt.
The Xpdf open source project includes a PDF viewer along with a collection of command line tools which perform various functions on PDF files:
- xpdf: PDF viewer.
- pdftotext: converts PDF to text.
- pdftops: converts PDF to PostScript.
- pdftoppm: converts PDF pages to netpbm (PPM/PGM/PBM) image files.
- pdftopng: converts PDF pages to PNG image files.
- pdftohtml: converts PDF to HTML.
- pdfinfo: extracts PDF metadata.
- pdfimages: extracts raw images from PDF files.
- pdffonts: lists fonts used in PDF files.
- pdfdetach: extracts attached files from PDF files.
Website: www.xpdfreader.com
Support: Forum
Developer: Derek Noonburg
License: GNU General Public License version 2 and 3.
The image below shows XpdfReader in action.
XpdfReader is a closed source build of xpdf, incorporating some additional features that are not part of the open source xpdf package:
- DeviceN (CMYK + spot color) rasterization.
- Color management.
- Windows printing.
Xpdf is written in C++. Learn C++ with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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